Four parties wanted to adopt the animal who went viral over the weekend.

Wilbur, runaway pig in the city of West Hollywood, adopted by Grammy-winning songwriter

Four parties wanted to adopt the animal who went viral over the weekend.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American *Journalism Review* and *The Shreveport Times*.

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August 21, 2026 12:11 a.m. ET

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Diane Warren has adopted the internet-famous pig Wilbur. Credit:

- A pig who the internet named “Wilbur” went viral for running through West Hollywood over the weekend.

- One of the people watching was a very famous songwriter, who won the pig in a silent auction.

- She’s considering a name change.

Famed songwriter Diane Warren just added another animal to her family: the black-and-white pig who went viral over the weekend, after he was seen running through the streets of West Hollywood.

Dubbed “Wilbur” by the internet, the pig was eventually taken to a West L.A. Animal Shelter, in hopes that someone would claim him. No one did, but his new-found fame attracted four potential piggy parents.

They participated in a silent auction, and the winner was none other than a representative for Diane Warren, the songwriter behind hits including Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me,” Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time,” and Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”

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“Diane saw the news clips and saw the little pig running in West Hollywood and she just called me and said, ‘Please get the pig, get the pig!’” Marcia Zwilling, the managing director of the Diane Warren Foundation, told L.A.’s ABC 7.

Zwilling explained that Wilbur will spend the rest of his days in Malibu, where he will live among other animals on a seven-acre sanctuary, eating gourmet salads daily.

“Oh my god, you’re so cute,” Warren told Wilbur when they met. “Look, you have a really good mind. What are you doing running around Hollywood?”

Warren said she already has a pig with the name of the sweet pig from *Charlotte’s Web*, so she’s considering changing the new addition’s name to Hollywood.

Her bidder, Zwilling, told the outlet that the pig would have “a wonderful, wonderful home.”

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The venue is called Mousebutt Rescue Ranch, according to* **USA Today**,* named after Warren’s late cat Mouse and a parrot that she called Buttwings. Animals including other pigs, cats, goats, horses, chickens, and donkeys will be his neighbors.

“I lose Oscars, but I won a pig,” Warren said, as she laughed. “It’s awesome. I’m really happy I won that auction, and Wilbur’s going to have a great home. It’s fun.”

Diane Warren in 2024 in Los Angeles.

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Warren was referencing her losing record at the Academy Awards, where she has been nominated a staggering 17 times, but has never won. She went home empty-handed again this year, when her track “Dear Me,” from the documentary *Diane Warren: Relentless *was up for Best Original Song.

She was nominated for the first time in 1988 for co-writing Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,” which was used in the movie *Mannequin*. She went on to be nominated nine times in a row between 2018 and 2026. In 2022, she was given an honorary award.

The vegan also has a history of supporting animals through her foundation, which is “dedicated to the support of animal rights & protection, enriching lives of the elderly and people suffering from life-threatening illnesses, along with music related charities.”

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